Xtraordinary Leaders - The Podcast

Extraordinary Leaders - A special series on becoming remarkable 

This is a 3 episode podcast special.

In each episode I share the answers to three big questions I have had about leadership over the last 35 years:

• What is leadership, and what is the extraordinary version of it that achieves more and has greater impact?
• What are the most important skills and techniques that allow these extraordinary leaders to be more effective and successful?
• How do these remarkable everyday leaders grow from ordinary to extraordinary? 

Episode 3:  The becoming of extraordinary leaders

In this last of a three-episode series on extraordinary leadership, I share the deep work that leaders must do if they are to grow fully into their potential to become extraordinary.  

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Take Care, Lead Well.

This is a 3 episode podcast special.

In each episode I share the answers to three big questions I have had about leadership over the last 35 years:

• What is leadership, and what is the extraordinary version of it that achieves more and has greater impact?
• What are the most important skills and techniques that allow these extraordinary leaders to be more effective and successful?
• How do these remarkable everyday leaders grow from ordinary to extraordinary?  

Episode 2: The skills of extraordinary leadership

In this second of a three-episode series on extraordinary leadership, I share more important techniques and skills that extraordinary leaders use to have greater impact and influence.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

This is a 3 episode podcast special.

In each episode, I share the answers to three big questions I have had about leadership over the last 35 years:

• What is leadership, and what is the extraordinary version of it that achieves more and has greater impact?
• What are the most important skills and techniques that allow these extraordinary leaders to be more effective and successful?
• How do these remarkable everyday leaders grow from ordinary to extraordinary?  

Episode 1: The secret of extraordinary leadership

In this first of a three-episode series on extraordinary leadership I share the two magic ingredients that are essential for more remarkable impact and results.  

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Take Care, Lead Well.

Provocation is a critical component of a leader’s toolkit.  To disrupt the system, and challenge the status quo is essential if we are to adapt to new and changing realities. In this episode Gerard is joined by Michael Johnstone and Maxime Ferm to discuss their new book Provocation as Leadership: A Roadmap for Adaptation and Change.  

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Take Care, Lead Well.

The quality of teamwork achieved by an executive team has an enormous impact on business success. So it makes sense to invest in coaching the team to be healthy and high performing.  In the second instalment of this two-episode special, Gerard shares stories and insights into some of the reasons why executive teams need help, and ways in which leadership teams can conquer dysfunction and achieve higher levels of success.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

The quality of teamwork achieved by an executive team has an enormous impact on business success. So it makes sense to invest in coaching the team to be healthy and high performing.  In this two-episode special, Gerard shares stories and insights into some of the reasons why executive teams need help, and ways in which leadership teams can conquer dysfunction and achieve higher levels of success.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

The underlying foundation for any leader-follower relationship is trust.

Yet we rarely examine what we mean by that word. Trust.  Nor do we talk about why it is so central to the workings of leadership, or such a critical ingredient in how our societies work.

If you don't understand trust fully, you can't properly value it, build it or protect it.  Which means that ultimately you can't exercise leadership fully, nor can we create the conditions where we experience more trustworthy leadership in our lives.

So this episode is all about trust.  What it actually is, the critical role it plays in leadership, and how we can cultivate more of it.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

The amount of disruption and change we are experiencing in our lives seems to be increasing.  Yet the challenge of change has always confronted us, demanding courageous and compassionate leadership to help us make our way through it.  In this episode Gerard speaks with colleague and leadership expert Robbie MacPherson about the essential role leaders play in helping people through the struggle of loss and suffering that accompanies major change, and how leaders can use their own lives as a powerful teacher to learn more about leadership.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

In this episode Gerard shares the four natural leadership styles that can form the backbone of your success as a leader.  With each leadership style reflecting your natural strengths, motivations and life experiences, he shows how greater energy, authenticity and effectiveness can flow from pursuing your natural and instinctive approach to leadership.

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Take Care, Lead Well.

Chris Rolls, Managing Director of PieLAB Private Equity believes that the best investment that we and our organisations can make is in leadership. In fact, the capital fund he runs makes its investment decisions, and leverages the value from the many millions invested, by focusing on and growing leadership.

It’s paying off too, with their first investment fund performed so well, that they are now raising capital for a second fund using the same philosophy, with 39 out of their original 43 investors buying in again, with some increasing their stakes by up to 10 times their original investment

Chris is also a successful entrepreneur and business leader in his own right, building, growing and selling at least four businesses before establishing PieLABs first investment fund in 2017. 

In this episode Chris shares why leadership makes all the difference to their success, how he learned to value leadership, and some of the key leadership principles that have driven his own success, and that of the businesses they invest in.

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Take Care, Lead Well.